Anti-Consumers Dig Through Trash for Food [Barf Risk]

Associated Press ^ | DESMOND BUTLER

[BenLurkin]

Don't read this before lunch. We are living in the age of insanity.

[Fierce Allegiance]

even the brave should stay away from bulging or oozing cans.

Uhm,yeah, ya think? Botulism isn't exactly fun.

[CitizenUSA]

BenLurkin wrote: "We are living in the age of insanity."

Perhaps, but I don't see the problem. I thought this was a free society. If so, let 'em eat trash.

[Dallas59]

And no insurance to pay for the emergency room!

[rhombus]

Timothy Jones, an anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, conducted a 10-year study that concluded the country wastes 40 percent to 50 percent of its food.

It's a good thing there is an excess of food in this country or these left-wing fanatics would starve. However, in a country that respects all beliefs these devotees of the garbage pail are free to worship my trash cans all they want.

[Dallas59]

"The number one problem is that Americans have lost touch with what food is for," Jones said. "We have lost touch with the processes that bring it to the table and we don't notice the inefficiency."

Then get a job in a processing plant...

[Right Wing Assault]

I would suggest sprinkling botulism on all discarded food. That will stop THIS little hobby real soon! Maybe a bit of E. coli, too. Damn! I wish I lived there. So much food to contaminate! Then we could follow them to the emergency room and say, "Something you ate disagree with you? That's too bad."

[mtbopfuyn]

Well, Americans do waste an awfully lot of still edible food. There are grocery stores that do place out back on crates or such foods that are about to expire or produce that's not up to the eye pleasing perfection many customers demand. There are also restraunts which will give their day's excess to people for the asking. Though I wouldn't beg and that's what I consider it to be especially when they're able bodied individuals, but I can appreciate the waste not want not concept. However, I draw the line at eating out of garbage cans.

[Alouette]

Then, when they get food poisoning, sue the store!

[Fierce Allegiance]

Yeah, and we as taxpayers pay again for the slackers and losers of society.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

However, I draw the line at eating out of garbage cans.

With cats and rats and roaches crawling around in there too, its possible these people could be a catalyst for spreading a plague. Their political issue could by a community's nightmare.

[Tulsa Ramjet]

However, I draw the line at eating out of garbage cans.

With cats and rats and roaches crawling around in there too, its possible these people could be a catalyst for spreading a plague. Their political issue could b"e"(whoops) a community's nightmare.

[Dallas59]

[BenLurkin]

"There are also restraunts which will give their day's excess to people for the asking."

That is a good thing. No problem there.

[Gay State Conservative]

Their activities,I understand,have recently been approved by
The American Academy Of Nutritional Microbiologists.

[DustyMoment]

Not bad considering the diners find their food by digging through garbage.

Gee, what fun.

[BudgieRamone]

When I worked for the deli department of a large grocery store, we used to discard most of the hot case at night, large chunks of (sometimes whole) brisket, BBQ ribs, chopped BBQ beef and side dishes, easily a $100 worth of food, all of it in the dumpster. I offered to arrange for donation to a local family shelter--it would have been easy but they gave me every excuse in the world why they couldn't. I finally gave up and would at least make myself a nice dinner--that was OK with mgmt--I just couldn't give it away.

Sad.

[infocats]

"Timothy Jones, an anthropology professor at the University of Arizona, conducted a 10-year study that concluded the country wastes 40 percent to 50 percent of its food. A 1997 U.S. Department of Agriculture study put the loss at 27 percent of total U.S. food production, or 96 billion pounds of food."

Now that's food for thought (every pun intended)

[xcamel]

...and who said anencephalics don't live past birth..